THEME OF THE TERM: WHO WE ARE

CENTRAL IDEA: Shapes, Sounds and Marks around us develop our learning

• Reinforce our topic about the Family members 
• Introduce color yellow and triangle shape 
• Count and identify number 1 
• Introduce jolly phonic sound s 

• introduce the square shape and colour gre
• learn vocabulary related to the part of the body
• reinforce our colour, number and shapes 

• Learn vocabulary related to sizes ( grand et petit) 
• Reinforce the jolly phonic s
• Quantify number 2
• Reinforce the square Shape vocabulary ( carré)

•    Introduce the jolly phonics sound a
• Reinforce the shapes and colors vocabulary.
• learn new vocabulary related to craft. 
• Count and identify number 1 and 2.
• listen to story. 

We also expressed and learnt through play as we played fun games, scooped sand, picked leaves and seeds to fill bottles. Through creativity, the children were able to "open the bottles , fill them up and shut the containers", this sensory activity helped stimulate our senses- touch, feel, sight etc . The children learnt the vocabulary word "open and shut" and they danced to the rhyme for the week (open and shut them, give a little clap…).

The students showed so much interest as they continued to learn their sounds. They were introduced to sound " t" and objects that begin with it . It was fun seeing the children sort out objects with initial sounds "s, a, and t".

Number 3 looks more relatable as the children identified them while playing, walking and reading. Teachers introduced the number with multiple manipulatives so it's fun to learn and quantify the number.

The children really made sense of the world that surrounds them through all the learnings that took place this week.

Keep it up, kiddos!!

Next week, we will learn:

• spatial awareness

• more/less concept

• action words- run, walk, crawl, hop

See you next week!! :)

• Reinforce letter sound s,a,t
• Quantify number 3
• Introduce the concept of more and less ( peu- beaucoup) 
• Learn vocabulary related to Christmas ( Noël)
• Introduce Fruits and vegetables
• Sing rhymes and listen to story.

Well done, Richard!

To understand the sense of space, the children explored different shapes (circle, triangle, square) with colourful manipulatives (wooden blocks, colourful plates, Legos and unifix cubes) to fit in the shapes.. It looks so pretty!.

Following rules and regulations promotes learning, this made the children to embark in an obstruction activity by walking on pattern balls and sorting colours with bean bags, crawling through a turnel to match sounds (s,a,t) and objects, the children also enjoyed hopping and jumping in a holla hop to quantify numbers (1,2,3). It was really a challenge the fantastic learners created and also found solutions to obstructions in learning.

The children related "t" sound to the objects around them. They made a "t as in Tree" with some red apples on it which they admired so much.

Our clear rules and regulations really created a conducive atmosphere for learning!.

Good job kiddos!.

NEXT WEEK LEARNING!

• Introduction of sound "i".

• *Pretend market role play

• *How we are different from others

• *Rhyme for the week "Hookey Pookey"

More wins girl!

This week was so busy and full of fun activities.

The children were able to sort out fruits and vegetables  while learning the vocabulary in French( mais, tomate,chou,carotte,concombre..). The activity was fun as they had to pick the fruits and vegetables from the playground then put them in the right tub.

It was amazing to see the Tweenies taking the role of a buyer and a seller in our market role play activity. They demonstrated a good understanding of the concept and really enjoyed the activity.

From the house , they took a bike/ car and drove all the way to the market to buy  the fruits and vegetables of their choice. Pretend coins/paper money was given to them to understand the exchange in the market. 

 Maths 

We introduced the rectangle shapes ( rectangle) using different rectangle objects in the class.

During circle time , we numbered the boys and the girls in class, named our colours, sung and danced to rhymes.

We went to the farm to water our corn plante and we were happy to see how our seed  have grown.

Story time:

 We enjoyed listening to a story titled” the hungry caterpillar (French version) and “ huits petits ouistitis. 

Next week we will...

• Introduced jolly phonics sound m

• Quantify number 4

• Introduce the vocabulary of in and out ( Dedans-dehors)

Learning this week was super engaging as the little learners were introduced to the letter sound “i” and they happily demonstrated, sung and danced to the introduction song. Well done friends!.

To enhance the sense of numbers and quantity, the children engaged in numbers quantification as they were able to identify numbers 1,2,3 by automatic recognition through the use of manipulatives ( colourful balls, hula hop). They had so much fun taking turns to embark on a mini relay race to quantify and sort the numbers. It was an important number sense skill for children to master. Great effort learners!.

The fun and engaging week ended as we celebrated Anti Bullying Day during the whole school assembly. Our super cute learners demonstrated how to stop bullying which they understood as“kindness to our friends” and they boldly stepped forward to thumb print as an evidence that “our school is a bully free zone!. What an awareness session!.

NEXT WEEK LEARNING!

*Introduction of In and Out concept.

*Continuation of sound "i"

Our TEA PARTY was the star activity of the week. Decorating paper cups, blowing balloons, setting tables, making sandwiches, serving chocolate cake , welcoming and serving guests etc are some of the activities that the children did during our class Tea party. The children nicely listened to the story” The tiger who came to tea”, and they pretended to use their dolls as their guests who were served sandwiches, cakes and mint tea.

It was an atmosphere that gave the children the opportunity to come up with their own ideas and role- play different scenarios, the activity helps the children to work together, find solutions to challenges and also builds their problem -solving skills. An enjoyable week, overall!

NEXT WEEK LEARNING!

• Revision of numbers 1 to 4

• Sounds s, a, t and i

• Opposites

• Weather and days of the week rhymes

Following this principle, we based our lessons for this week on reinforcing the letters, sounds, numbers and rhymes we have been learning so far.

Our co-curricular activities were full of sensory play, Christmas crafts and music sessions.

Looking forward to another week of revisions and pretend play.

The children admired the moment when they used their handprint to make Christmas cards for their parents, they created their beautiful cards with stickers and beautiful colours. It was a happy moment!.

This last week was an amazing one and the children were really full of excitement and all was fun filled as they enjoyed the cooking class, pyjamas party, water play in which they splashed, splitted and squeezed coloured water, they were also not left out in the ball game race. The cute learners are really worth the fun!.

We hope to have a more engaging and pleasant experience come next year . As we will be exploring the Central Idea” Stories and Rhymes improves our knowledge of a variety of settings”.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in advance.

See you in

2024!!!

THEME- "WHERE WE ARE IN PLACE AND TIME"

CENTRAL IDEA- Stories and Rhymes improves our knowledge and understanding of a variety of settings.

ACTION- The children will create, present and perform their own story or rhyme in front of the class audience..

This term promises to be an exciting and stimulating one. Stay tuned!

We also explored the new term theme as the children were introduced to stories and rhymes which will help them improve their knowledge and understanding of a variety of settings.

It was so adorable to see the children present their own story in their little ways of understanding as they flipped through their favorite story books during library story time.. Great job kiddos!

NEXT WEEK LEARNING!

*Patterning

*Introduction of sound "p"

*Fine motor skill- Ripping and Cutting.

He was able to settle down nicely, participated greatly in all activities and followed the new class routines. Well done Richard!.

To make predictions and to encourage reasoning skills, the children were introduced to Objects Patterning. They got engaged in different patterning activities using colourful manipulatives like papers, blocks, shapes, glitter stickers etc. this really required the ability of the children to recognize regularities in shapes, objects and colours to detest sameness and difference.

In making progress in vocabulary development, the sound “p” was introduced to the children as they wiggled and demonstrated the phonics rhymes. They explored the sound “p” in a new way by patterning it in colourful squares. They really loved the Puff!.

It's truly said that every story has its problems and solutions. The children enjoyed the story for the week “Dear Zoo” as they picked their favourite pets and created a house for it . They also differentiated the wild animals from friendly animals. In addition, the children got to understand words usable to know where things are as they learnt about Preposition words e.g On, under, front, back , beside etc This will indeed help them communicate better.

Furthermore, to promote grasps patterns and improve visual perception, the children explored ripping and cutting of papers with scissors as the week's fine motor skills activity. It really helps their muscle strength.

We enjoyed the whole week of learning.!!

NEXT WEEK LEARNING!.

• Concept of length

• Number 4 activity

• Activities related to preposition.

Learning French this week was super adorable. The children were introduced to the story book of the week “ Boucle D’or” , they got engaged in pretend play based on the story and it was all amazing to see the children use the vocabulary learnt from the story and in addition, they learnt the concept of big(grand), small(petite), and medium(moyen).

The children were able to communicate in french during the pretend play and even on the playground with their friends. It was so interesting to behold!.

We explored what a house(Maison) is as part of the theme for the term( where we are in time and place). Exploring the story of the Goldilocks and using it's house as a concept to be viewed for the children. The children got to understand the different parts of a house as roof(toit), door( la porte) window(fenetre)as they decorated a toy house and identified the parts in french and they enjoyed sticking glitters on the parts of the house as they danced around the house, say and repeat the vocabulary.

Learning shapes, colours and counting in French became more interesting and the children learnt about colour brawn- marron. they danced and sang and enjoyed listening to the story title " boucle d'or ". Learning French is really worth it again this week. See you next week!.

Next week we will...

• Reinforce letter sound l
  

• Introduce vocabulary related to preposition
  

  
  

• learn vocabulary related to house's room
  

• listen to story and sing rhymes.
  

They communicated their reasons for their favorite pets and also expressed their dislikes for the zoo animals which they believe can not stay in the house with them. It's amazing to see our young ones communicate their feelings about things around them. This brought them to the completion of their own story book about animals which was inspired from the classic story book " Dear zoo". Looking forward to our little authors reading their books. Well done kiddos!.

Guess what? We also explored number 4 just the way it is this week. The children got so engaged in the number 4 activity using manipulatives such as colorful bean bags, hula hoops and number maths to identify and quantify the number. Yes we get to know our number 4 in a super fun way!.

Length is being introduced to the children as what to use to describe how long an object is. They learnt 4 different sizes of length as "short, long, longer and longest. These were well arranged from the shortest to the longest by the children as they identified this in a fun way such as...baby, sister, mama and papa. It was funny but they understood the concept. Yippee!.

To recognize the relationship between words, the children explored physical activities to showcase some preposition words like "in, on, under, below, front and back" . They enjoyed this activity with the use of colorful scarves to display these positions during circle time. Indeed our language is developing. Yes we can do more!

We explored sound waves( s, a, t, i, p). This took a form of listening to sound rhymes, to climbing robe ladder, to pick the right sound and match the same sounds in the tray. It was a lots of sounds experiments .

The inspired week ended with beautiful and surprising looks on the faces of the children when they saw the settings of a Puppet Show and they got to listen to one of their favorite stories "Lion and the mouse" Great show it was.

The children were inspired in all areas of learning this week and sure we are ready for more . See you

next week!

Well done baby girl!, Keep it up!.

  Our language development keeps getting better by the day. The children explored their own rhymes this week, it sounds so interesting right?. They bop their heads, danced and made their rhymes using their favourite picture from the mystery box. This they did without fear of being judged.  This helps the children hone their fine motor, language skills and boost their self confidence. So amazing!.In Addition, our amazing sound "n" was introduced with lots of dancing, demonstrations. The children explored the sound "n" and was able to sort out objects beginning with the sound as they play around making "nnnnnnnn" sound. Well done buddies!.

Beep, Beep, Beep!, it's Tween O'clock. Yes, this is another fun way we learn about time. They explored time as it has to do with waking up in the morning, time to snack, time for school, time for pick up and time to sleep at night. With different manipulatives such as, paper arrow, maths numbers, colourful  hula hoops, we were able to know and see the long and short hand on a real clock and also it was an opportunity for the children to identify their numbers on the clock as they dance and sang to the week's rhyme "Hickory dickory dock" round the clock. Really a fun way to learn!.

Providing a safe space for exploration. The children smell,feel , touch, build their curiosity and expand their knowledge as they squeeze to develop their fine motor skills and also identify a star shape used as  they pretend to erupt a volcano with the use of vinegar and baking soda.  Yes, it was a learning experiment!.

  Watch out for more explorations next week. Bye!.

Boys: white shirt with black or dark blue trousers.

Girls: white top/shirt with black or dark blue trousers/skirt OR a white dress.

Thank you 🤩😊😊😊😊

To wrap up the epic adventure, we had a blast diving into the world of forest critters and even cooked up a catchy tune featuring  animal names in French!

It was amazing to see our artist perform on their tune.

Craft: we made a beautiful monkey as on of the animal we can found in the forest.

Bonne vacances!

We revised some concerts done in the past weeks and the children also participated in engaging activities from creating a nest craft  from our sound "n",  we explored number 5 with our five fingers in a colourful stamping and also we embarked on a trip to Mindscapes Children's Museum, it was a time for all round exploration.. So awesome! .In addition, the whole school gathered to celebrate Valentine' day with beautiful heart crafts, fun games and rhymes. We shared so much  love together.

Finally the children took turns in confidence to describe their book "Dear Zoo" , and they were happy taking it home to read to mummy and daddy.

We ended the week and indeed the first half term in a colourful and musical way! 

   Great job buddies, and have a restful break. See you soon!.

We will resume with all activities on February 19th, 2024

Wishing you all a delightful break as we eagerly anticipate an exciting second half. 🌟

The week was full of discovery as we explored the world of dinosaurs; the children were engaged in a fun activity to sort out living things and non living things as they made use of picture cards. They discovered and looked out for living things and nonliving things with using manipulatives such as shredded papers, plastic toys, animals, bugs, tweezers, spoons, leaves etc.. it was indeed a week where the children discovered themselves as living things.. so adorable!

We measured heights by counting how many dinosaurs tall each one was. What a way to learn quantification and the concept of tall/short by comparison.

We are looking forward to exploring more about different characteristics of the dinosaurs and the meaning of extinction.

Do you know how tall you are? The children discovered how tall they are, as they measured their heights in a fun way and stuck dinosaur cut-outs. They counted the numbers of dinosaurs that matched their heights and this really amazed them. It was really an enjoyable activity.

The week was a wholesome one from the black history celebration where the children showcase their sport skills just like Jesse Owens, the children also crafted their names on modelled T.rex dinosaurs. They all loved the craft.

The week came to an end with a sensory activity on how a T-Rex dinosaur will hatch its eggs. The children inquisitively made use of manipulatives like hammer, tweezers, salt, water to break out the baby dinosaur from an iced egg. We made it so real!!

The children imagined dinosaur  bones and they explored the world of dinosaurs and made the different bones using flour,  salt and warm water. They did this and it really looked like bones after they were placed in the oven for two hours. Wow!  It looks so real.

We learnt about the extinction of dinosaurs, how they moved away from the planet earth and the children got so curious about the dinosaurs' departure and they concluded to name themselves in place of these dinosaurs, which are: Jimiraptor, Abigailorex, Noasaurus, Sandydours, Hinelderdoctyl, Alexrex, Gagastop.. So cute right!.

To develop spatial reasoning,  problem-solving skills and sort bases on pictures and colors, the children were engaged in a patterning activity where they sorted out dinosaurs by colors and arranged them. They look pretty well!.

Also, the children made predictions about objects that we sink or float. This also developed their understanding about how and why some  objects  float and others sink, as they made use of different manipulatives like stones, balls, spoons,  papers and water as they identified and differentiated floating objects and sinking objects.

We encourage independent learning and decision making as we help the children to explore pieces of dinosaurs and they get so amazed to fix them to make them a whole picture. They were well fixed!.

Digging, planting and watering were other engaging activities that children enjoyed which promoted their level of exercise and helped them due to imagination and creativity. The children had so much fun planting their seeds in the garden and they look forward to it growing to be a big plant.

Our week was also fruitful with different fruits of vegetables for the children to search for and identify. They harvested different fruits and vegetables from a pretend tree and were super proud of themselves when they packed their favorite fruits and vegetables in their crafted basket. It looks so real and colorful!.

The children were inquisitive as they got to know what some animals give us as food. Did you know that cows give us milk , chickens give us eggs and chicken meat, sheep give us wool which is used to make our sweater and bees give us honey?. Teaching the children where their food originated instills a sense of responsibility in them. And children demonstrated milking the cow which increased their fine motor skills and eye-hand coordination by milking the pretend cow udder .

It was indeed an engaging and interactive week!. See you next

week!.

The children created their own chants on how to take care of plants and animals such as, loving the animals, giving water to plants, feeding the animals, keeping the animals and cleaning them. So cute, Well done kiddos!. Also, the children demonstrated their creativity during the silly hat day, as they paraded and showcased their creatively constructed silly hats, it was colorful and beautiful!.

Creatively the children created their dinosaur costumes, they created their shoes and spines, they got them ready for the dinosaur fun day.

Yippee!!! The dinosaur fun day was so full of different fun activities. The children introduced their dinosaur names, participated in dinosaur parade, dinosaur race, and they dug and found dinosaur bones. The fun day came to an end as the little learners stomped, roared and danced to their favorite dinosaur music.

It was Lunch time, and the class gathered together to have the dinosaur lunch together. So yummy!!

The term has been an amazing one and it was wrapped up with lots of fun from the Easter egg hunt fun day. The kiddos had fun moving from one spot of fun activities to another, from baking spot to the yoga and egg rolling, to dress up, picture and craft spot, we also went hunting for eggs and we finally bounced and jumped on the bouncing castle. Really funfilled!

The week was a beautiful week with fun activities to end the term 2.

Yes, we enjoyed every beat of the term. Thi is wishing you all a wonderful Easter celebration and a restful break .

See you next term!.

The school will be celebrating Earth day/ World Book Day on Tuesday 23rd April.

After becoming familiar with various community helpers, the children were given the opportunity to role-play as different professionals. They took turns pretending to be shopkeepers, buyers, cooks, farmers, and more, acting out scenarios that showcased the duties and responsibilities of each role. It was a hands-on way for the children to understand and relate themselves to the different community helpers in their own community.

Through these activities, the children not only gained a better understanding of the various professions that exist in their community, but also developed empathy and appreciation for the hard work and dedication of these essential workers. The week of learning and role-playing was not only educational but also a fun and memorable experience for all the children involved.

To grasp the pace of work of various community helpers, the Tweenies engaged in a dynamic activity conducted entirely in French. They participated in timed tasks, such as arranging objects, sorting items, and completing puzzles. This activity not only improved their French language skills but also helped them understand the different demands of each profession.

SALE ET PROPRE:

we enjoyed exploring the French vocabulary for "dirty" and "clean" and reinforced the lesson by washing community helper tools to keep them clean.

In our literacy session, we introduced the letter sound "e" and its related vocabulary. To wrap up, we created a craft of a snail, known as "escargot."

Exploring real tools used by community helpers and engaging in a sensory activity as builders must have been a great way for them to truly understand and appreciate the work of these individuals. The craft activity related to doctors was a wonderful way to teach children about the importance of healthcare professionals in our community.

It's fantastic to see the children actively participating and enjoying these learning experiences. Looking forward to hearing about the exciting learning activities planned for next week!

Venues to be visited: Hotel, supermarket, fire station

Timings: 9:00 am to 11:00 am

In a playful manner, the children identified shapes through shape jump games. To enhance their hand-eye coordination and focus, they engaged in a floor game activity where they traced different types of toy cars on line tracks, shaking and moving to the various sounds the cars made.

The week concluded with a sensory walk where the children explored stones, sand, paints, and water, describing the textures they felt. This was a fantastic activity that capped off an engaging week for the children.

We look forward to seeing everyone next week. Stay tuned!